Re: Which AUR helper is recommended?

There is no officially recommended AUR helper. Most answers will either be based on personal preference or else a suggestion that you try out the ones that sound interesting and decide for yourself. I use aurget because I want the processes for my AUR packages separate from pacman. Others want them together and choose something like yaourt.

Re: Which AUR helper is recommended?

graysky wrote:

a browser and makepkg are all you need.

I find it impractical to switch the workflow like that. If I'm searching for a package, I do this with pacman. If pacman does not come up with this, I search the AUR. If I have to open a browser first, browse the Arch page to find the AUR and then have to search for a package in that environment... I don't mind installing packages manually, but if I have to leave the terminal to search for packages, I might forget what I was looking for in the meantime.

Re: Which AUR helper is recommended?

orschiro wrote:

Packer is definitely nice if you prefer a helper which supports AUR as well as the official repos.

Regards

I think this is most of why I prefer Packer. Being able to pacman -syu instead of sudo apt-get update/sudo apt-get upgrade is AWESOME. Being able to packer -syu and update pacman AND the AUR is VERY AWESOME.

Re: Which AUR helper is recommended?

i have used Yaourt as a Pacman wrapper for over a year without trouble. It was Clyde that caused lots of headaches for me (explicitly installed packages got installed as dependencies, did not let me install more than one package at once, not dealing with replacements properly, breaking with each upgrade of Ruby etc.). I haven't used Clyde for months so maybe those things are fixed now but I just got fed up with it.

Re: Which AUR helper is recommended?

My preffered aur-helper, is a zsh function utilizing curl and makepkg... Anyway, If needing an 3'rd party aur-helper, then I would recommend cower, and if needing some extra automation, then pacaur, which wraps cower...

Re: Which AUR helper is recommended?

I tend to just use aurget.

I also have aliases set up for about 90% of package management:update: pacman -Syuaupdate: aurget -Syuremove: pacman -Rnssearch: pacman -Ssasearch: aurget -Ss (I think? I'm not on it right now)ainstall: aurget -Sy (I think? I'm not on it right now)pinstall: pacman -S